Randalls and Wards Islands ship shootout

The 2008 Randalls and Wards Islands dock shootout occurred in the spring of 2008 when Dominican-American criminal Luis Fernando Lopez and his friends Armando Torres and Henrique Bardas assaulted a marijuana shipment owned by the Spanish Lords on Randalls and Wards Islands. The trio of criminals killed several Spanish Lords gangsters as they guarded the ship, and Lopez headed upstairs to the bridge to steal the marijuana stash as the NYPD arrived to arrest the drug dealers. Lopez killed several NYPD officers as they arrived at the docks, using his vantage position from the bridge to have a clear line of sight. Lopez proceeded to jump off of the bridge and into the East River, and he managed to escape to a vehicle on the docks at Queens. Lopez stole a car and drove to the drug drop-off in Jackson Heights, selling the drugs to dealer Ramon Paris for $10,000.